Lolly-pop

[Guest Anonymous]

Today we brought a gorgeous 8 week old red Saffordshire Bull Terrier into our home,which also includes a 18 month old brindle bitch.

We've called her Lolly-pop and she's adorable and's fitted in great.Our older Staffy is intrigued by her and followed her around sniffing her until it finally clicked she was another dog!!!!Then they started playing,the older dog was so gentle,I was so proud of her.But of course there not going to be left alone together.

We took the dogs to my little sisters school where,of course we were swamped by at least 7 10 year old girls shrieking 'PUPPY!!!'

One of the little girls asked what breed Lolly was.When I promptly replied 'a Staffy'.She said 'oh,it's going to be a killer'.

I pointed to the older Staffy who was happily performing her tricks with her mum for enthralled school children (sitting,waving,dropping,generally being cute)and said 'she's a Staffy and she's not a killer'.

The ignorance of some people,I blame the parents.

[mouseatthebusstop]

VERY ANNOYING
I was out walking with my two dogs the other day. A mother and small child approched me I heard the mother say to the child That dog will bite you :roll: ignorance

[pei obssessed]

Yes, it is very rude--you shouldn't tell any kid "stay away from that dog, it's gonna eat you", but rather "don't ever approach any dog without asking the owner". These are two veeeeeery different things. First case--kid grows up afraid of dogs and hating them (because of idiot parent). Second variant--kid knows how to act with dogs and likes dogs.

[ellieangel]

Absolutely pei and DL :wink:

[courtnek]

while I generally agree that the sort of statement that you said can have bad repercussions later on in life (such as a fear of all dogs) is it such a bad thing to have a child know to not approach strange dogs?

[quote]

I DEFINITELY agree...my own dog is a :ab mix, and I cant tell you how many times I have to warn off parents who yell "ITS A LAB!! YOU CAN PET IT!!"

She is PART lab, but looks purebred to people who dont know,
and she DOES NOT LIKE SMALL CHILDREN....

I cant tell you how many times I have had to tell them "DO NOT let your children approach a strange dog!! No matter WHAT KIND it looks like!!"

Then they get all miffed and say "why do you have a dangerous dog then?"
"what did you do to make a Lab mean?" (THAT ONE really pisses me off....)

even purebred Labs will snap under stress, depending on how they have been raised and trained....

:o :o :o :o

[Peng1zrule]

pwrpufgirlz napisał(a):

while I generally agree that the sort of statement that you said can have bad repercussions later on in life (such as a fear of all dogs) is it such a bad thing to have a child know to not approach strange dogs?

Like I said, I agree that perhaps the mother should have asked if she could have allowed her child to pet your pup, but what if she had tried that before and encountered a bad dog owner, who was rude to her?

Is it ignorance or truly a learned behavior? I would like to hear what other people have to say on this.

Let's look at it from a point of view of all dog owners, not just pit (and other BSL affected breed) owners.

Yes, this is a TERRIBLE way to tell your child(ren) not to approach strange dogs. I have not just an apbt, but a siberian husky, a lab mix, and two corgi mixes...PLUS my ever-present little companion, gypsy, a small, white, fluffy, gregarious mixed breed. I take gypsy out alot, and people have yanked thier children away from her and called her dirty and said she would bite. I feel this is a terrible thing to do because parents instill a fear in the child and rarely back up what they've said about the dog biting. I cannot count how many parents have told thier children my dogs would bite, then would not run after their child to stop them from approaching my leashed dogs. They would say nasty things, like "i hope you DO get bit!" and the kid, depending on the age, either learns the parent is a liar, or walks up to my poor, innocent, leashed dog, and kicks or hits it to teach it a lesson about wanting to bite them. It's happend so often I don't take my dogs out, and I put them up when children come over...I just can't stand it anymore.